Internet

Although until now the internet seemed to be a good resource for buying electronics
hardware and software, a recent study shows that last year they were surpassed by other
kinds of merchandise: clothes and accessories.
An article on ContraCostaTimes.com shows how online computer sales have dropped down getting for the first time on the second place. It appears [...]

Yahoo Photos will be closed down soon in favor of the more social Flickr, a service acquired by Yahoo in 2005. This will be announced tomorrow and the actual closure will be some time in the next few months.
Yahoo Photos users that will wish to transfer the photos to Flickr will have the opportunity to [...]

eWeek has a interesting slideshow of the most influential people in IT, many of which will be familiar to you all.
I won’t spoil anything from the list so just check it out because it has it’s share of surprises.
Check it!

You all know digg, the social bookmarking website. Well, it has only been a week since they launched their own API and there are already some note-worthy applications and ideas released onto the interwebs.
Here’s a list of Mashable’s favourite 7. Definately need to check that out.
Enjoy!

Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps.
Read the press release here

iconfinder is a search engine that crawls the internet for… you guessed it, icons. It’s a great tool for web designers, allowing you to quickly search through 17.238 icons.

Here’s a list of job sites from around the internet compiled by FreelanceSwitch.com for all of you freelancers. It’s neatly tagged and organized, making it easy to find work.
Good luck!

The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.
It is reported that nearly 700,000 Americans make their primary or secondary income from online [...]

Online security is a nightmare these days, with all the viruses, phishing, drive-by downloads, pop-ups, and other malware out there. How bad is it?
Researchers at SiteAdvisor, a Web security firm owned by McAfee, set out to chart the Internet’s worst “domains”–those suffixes you find at the end of Web addresses, such as those by country [...]

After the DoubleClick purchase, Google also owns Performics, one of the largest SEO companies in the world, DoubleClick’s search marketing company. How’s that for a conflict of interest ?
As you already know, the goal of a SEO company is to raise the rankings of their clients efficiently on search engines. Such services offered by Performics [...]